OSC Bulletin Volume 42, Issue 14 (April 4, 2019)
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The Ontario Securities Commission OSC Bulletin April 4, 2019 Volume 42, Issue 14 (2019), 42 OSCB The Ontario Securities Commission administers the Securities Act of Ontario (R.S.O. 1990, c. S.5) and the Commodity Futures Act of Ontario (R.S.O. 1990, c. C.20) The Ontario Securities Commission Published under the authority of the Commission by: Cadillac Fairview Tower Thomson Reuters 22nd Floor, Box 55 One Corporate Plaza 20 Queen Street West 2075 Kennedy Road Toronto, Ontario Toronto, Ontario M5H 3S8 M1T 3V4 416-593-8314 or Toll Free 1-877-785-1555 416-609-3800 or 1-800-387-5164 Contact Centre – Inquiries, Complaints: Fax: 416-593-8122 TTY: 1-866-827-1295 Office of the Secretary: Fax: 416-593-2318 The OSC Bulletin is published weekly by Thomson Reuters Canada, under the authority of the Ontario Securities Commission. Thomson Reuters Canada offers every issue of the Bulletin, from 1994 onwards, fully searchable on SecuritiesSource™, Canada’s pre-eminent web-based securities resource. 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One Corporate Plaza Customer Support 2075 Kennedy Road 1-416-609-3800 (Toronto & International) Toronto, Ontario 1-800-387-5164 (Toll Free Canada & U.S.) M1T 3V4 Fax 1-416-298-5082 (Toronto) Fax 1-877-750-9041 (Toll Free Canada Only) Email [email protected] Table of Contents Chapter 1 Notices ................................................... 3021 3.1.1 Clifton Blake Asset Management Ltd. et al. 1.1 Notices .............................................................. nil – s. 127 .......................................................... 3135 1.2 Notices of Hearing ............................................ nil 3.2 Director’s Decisions ........................................ nil 1.3 Notices of Hearing with Related Statements of Allegations ........................... 3021 1.3.1 Paramount Equity Financial Corporation et al. Chapter 4 Cease Trading Orders .......................... 3139 – ss. 127(1), 127.1 ......................................... 3021 4.1.1 Temporary, Permanent & Rescinding 1.4 Notices from the Office Issuer Cease Trading Orders ......................... 3139 of the Secretary ............................................ 3035 4.2.1 Temporary, Permanent & Rescinding 1.4.1 Clifton Blake Asset Management Ltd. et al. .... 3035 Management Cease Trading Orders ............. 3139 1.4.2 Andrew Paul Rudensky .................................. 3035 4.2.2 Outstanding Management & Insider 1.4.3 Paramount Equity Financial Corporation Cease Trading Orders ................................... 3139 et al. ............................................................... 3036 1.4.4 Trilogy Mortgage Group Inc. and Trilogy Chapter 5 Rules and Policies .................................... nil Equities Group Limited Partnership ................ 3036 1.5 Notices from the Office Chapter 6 Request for Comments ............................ nil of the Secretary with Related Statements of Allegations ............................... nil Chapter 7 Insider Reporting .................................. 3141 Chapter 2 Decisions, Orders and Rulings ............ 3037 Chapter 9 Legislation ................................................. nil 2.1 Decisions ...................................................... 3037 2.1.1 Stewards Canada ........................................... 3037 Chapter 11 IPOs, New Issues and Secondary 2.1.2 AngelList Holdings, LLC and AngelList Financings ............................................. 3303 Advisors, LLC ................................................. 3041 2.1.3 European Commercial Real Estate Chapter 12 Registrations ......................................... 3313 Investment Trust ............................................. 3057 12.1.1 Registrants ..................................................... 3313 2.1.4 IA Clarington Investments Inc. et al. ............... 3061 2.1.5 Fiera Capital Corporation et al. ....................... 3067 Chapter 13 SROs, Marketplaces, 2.1.6 Knowledge First Financial Inc. ........................ 3082 Clearing Agencies and 2.1.7 RBC Dominion Securities Inc. ....................... 3087 Trade Repositories ............................... 3315 2.1.8 Manulife Asset Management Limited and 13.1 SROs ............................................................. 3315 Manulife International Value Equity Fund ....... 3091 13.1.1 IIROC – Proposed Amendments to IIROC 2.1.9 WEQ Holdings Inc. (formerly By-Law No. 1, s. 5.3(2) (Director Term Limits) WesternOne Inc.) ........................................... 3096 – Request for Comment ................................. 3315 2.1.10 Ninepoint Partners LP and the 13.1.2 MFDA – Proposed Amendments to MFDA Top Funds ..................................................... 3101 Rule 2.3.1(b) (Discretionary Trading) – 2.1.11 NCM Asset Management Ltd. ....................... 3108 Request for Comment .................................... 3316 2.1.12 Samara Capital Inc. ....................................... 3112 13.2 Marketplaces .................................................... nil 2.2 Orders............................................................ 3117 13.3 Clearing Agencies ........................................... nil 2.2.1 Nevsun Resources Ltd. .................................. 3117 13.4 Trade Repositories .......................................... nil 2.2.2 Trilogy Mortgage Group Inc. and Trilogy Equities Group Limited Partnership Chapter 25 Other Information ................................. 3317 – s. 127(8) ...................................................... 3119 25.1. Consents ...................................................... 3317 2.3 Orders with Related Settlement 25.1.1 Cannabis Strategies Acquisition Corp. Agreements ................................................... 3120 – s. 4(b) of Ont. Reg. 289/00 2.3.1 Clifton Blake Asset Management Ltd. et al. under the OBCA ............................................ 3317 – s. 127........................................................... 3120 2.4 Rulings .......................................................... 3130 Index ............................................................................ 3321 2.4.1 R.J. O’Brien & Associates Canada Inc. – s. 38(1) of the CFA ...................................... 3130 Chapter 3 Reasons: Decisions, Orders and Rulings ................................................... 3135 3.1 OSC Decisions .............................................. 3135 April 4, 2019 (2019), 42 OSCB Chapter 1 Notices 1.3 Notices of Hearing with Related Statements of Allegations 1.3.1 Paramount Equity Financial Corporation et al. – ss. 127(1), 127.1 FILE NO.: 2019-12 IN THE MATTER OF PARAMOUNT EQUITY FINANCIAL CORPORATION, SILVERFERN SECURED MORTGAGE FUND, SILVERFERN SECURED MORTAGE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, GTA PRIVATE CAPITAL INCOME FUND, GTA PRIVATE CAPITAL INCOME LIMTED PARTNERSHIP, SILVERFERN GP INC., PARAMOUNT EQUITY INVESTMENTS INC., PARAMOUNT ALTERNATIVE CAPITAL CORPORATION, PACC AINSLIE CORPORATION, PACC COSTIGAN CORPORATION, PACC CRYSTALLINA CORPORATION, PACC DACEY CORPORATION, PACC GOULAIS CORPORATION, PACC HARRIET CORPORATION, PACC MAJOR MACK CORPORATION, PACC MAPLE CORPORATION, PACC MULCASTER CORPORATION, PACC REGENT CORPORATION, PACC SCUGOG CORPORATION, PACC SECHELT CORPORATION, PACC SHAVER CORPORATION, PACC SIMCOE CORPORATION, PACC THOROLD CORPORATION, PACC WILSON CORPORATION, NIAGARA FALLS FACILITY INC., TRILOGY MORTGAGE GROUP INC., TRILOGY EQUITIES GROUP LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, MARC RUTTENBERG, RONALD BRADLEY BURDON and MATTHEW LAVERTY NOTICE OF HEARING Subsection 127(1) and Section 127.1 of the Securities Act, RSO 1990, c S.5 PROCEEDING TYPE: Enforcement Proceeding HEARING DATE AND TIME: April 24, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. LOCATION: 20 Queen Street West, 17th Floor, Toronto, Ontario PURPOSE The purpose of this proceeding is to consider whether it is in the public interest for the Commission to make the order(s) requested in the Statement of Allegations filed by Staff of the Commission on March 29,2019. The hearing set for the date and time indicated above is the first attendance in this proceeding, as described in subsection